PM’s Top Security Adviser Quashed Three Key Reports on Chinese Interference: Intel Watchdog

Published on May 28, 2024

The prime minister’s top security adviser prevented the distribution of intelligence reports related to Chinese interference on several occasions, according to the agency in charge of reviewing federal intelligence activities. A disagreement on what constitutes foreign interference between intelligence analysis bodies and the National Security and Intelligence Advisor (NSIA) “played a role in those intelligence products not reaching the political executive, including the prime minister,” says a report from the security watchdog National Security and Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA). NSIRA released on May 28 the public version of its special report reviewing the distribution of intelligence on People’s Republic of China (PRC) political foreign interference, covering the period 2018 to 2023....

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